About us
Technosocial Research Services
Technosocial is a research publishing and consulting business based in Melbourne, Australia. We've been around since 1988 which was when we first registered the business name Technosocial and started operations.
With our particular focus on what we now call ecommerce technologies, Technosocial was the first independent Australian organisation to publish regular research reports on
We began publishing our research newsletters in February of 1989 and the Australasian EDI Report appeared monthly until late in 1996. An Electronic Trading Directory was first published in 1991, followed by our Guide to EDI Software the following year.
A training course, Understanding and Using EDI was published in 1993, and courses presented in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne throughout that year and the next in conjunction with Technisearch, the commercial arm of RMIT University.
In 1996 we broadened the focus of our interests to include Internet and web technologies and re-launched our monthly newsletter, as a fortnightly publication under the title of the Electronic Commerce Report.
From 1994 to 1997 the Report was complemented by Australasian Messaging News, a specialist monthly newsletter focussed on email technologies.
Since then we've consolidated our interests under the banner of our eCommerce Report, and added to our professional development activities by founding the Australian eCommerce Network.
Network and Report subscribers receive regular weekly email updates on contemporary ecommerce issues, along with a regular newsletter.
The newsletter is delivered online, via email, and/or as a hard copy through the Post .
Subscriptions start at $895 per annum. Subscribers include some of Australia's largest corporates and most influential government agencies, along with a small number of susbcribers in New Zealand.
Network susbcribers also enjoy automatic access to AeCN seminars on contemporary ecommerce topics.
The AECN has also represented Australian internationally. A good example is where, in late 2003 and 2004 it successfully
organised and led 2 separate teams of e-commerce trainers to Indonesia to carry out short-course 'ecommerce for Indonesian exporters' training.
Under the AeCN banner, we have produced and hosted more than forty such seminars all across Australia
in recent years.
The project was funded and commissioned jointly by the Indonesia and Australian governments as part of Phase II of the IASTP
(Indonesia Australia Specialised Training Programme).
In 2007 the AeCN expanded its activities to embrace the rapidly growing field of online consumer ecommerce and online shopping.
Onlineshop2007 was the result - a day long conference style event organised specifically to showcase online shopping technologies,
approaches and people.
Technosocial is entirely independently owned and operated by Stewart Carter. Stewart is a prolific writer on eCommerce and related topics. His columns and articles have been published in a wide range of Australian and international business and IT publications, including the Age, the Australian, the Daily Commercial News, Business Review Weekly, Overseas Trading, PC Week, and MIS magazine, amongst numerous others. Stewart has consulted widely to Australian and international organisations, including AT&T, Telstra, Australia Post and various Australian and state government departments and agencies.
For further information and enquiries please visit our web-sites at www.ecommercereport.com.au, www.aecn.org and www.onlineshop2007.com
We can also be contacted by email to mail@ecommercereport.com.au, or by phone to 0433142419 or by fax to 0433142420, or via Skype at hscarter.
(Callers from outside Australia should add the coutnry code +61 as a prefix and drop the '0', i.e +61433 142419)